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The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin
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The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
New edition edition (30 Jan 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0500277907ISBN-13: 978-0500277904
Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 19 x 0.8 cm
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This edition reproduces the most important of the fully decorated pages plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail; spiral and interlaced patterns, human and animal ornament - a combination of high seriousness and humour. Accompanying the illustrations is a new text by Bernard Meehan, the Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin. He provides an authoritative analysis of these exuberant inventions, the artists, the text and the writing, and a full account of the historical background to the miraculous world of the Book of Kells.